The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) will increase its coverage of thesituation in the Northwestern, Tay Nguyen Central Highlands andSouthwestern regions while contributing to popularising the Party’spolicies, State’s laws and Government’s orientations to people in thesestrategic regions.

VNA Deputy General Director LeDuy Truyen unveiled the news agency’s plans at a June 19 conference inDak Lak discussing measures to implement an agreement on informationcoordination signed between VNA and the Steering Committees for theNorthwestern, Central Highlands and Southwestern regions.

VNA will set up a number of key bureaus in the three regions to bettercarry out the agreement, the deputy director general said.

Representatives from Tin Tuc newspaper, Dan Toc-Mien Nui Pictorialpledged to accelerate work on opening special columns to updateinformation about the three regions in line with the agreement.

Deputy permanent head of the Steering Committee for the Tay NguyenCentral Highlands Tran Viet Hung spoke highly of the VNA’s role as anational news agency and the strategic and trusted information providerof the Party and State. The agency has covered news about the threestrategic regions on its diverse publications, from printed andelectronic newspapers to the VNEWS Television Channel in Vietnamese,foreign languages and ethnic minority languages.

Heaffirmed that the agency’s information has well served the nationalconstruction and defence and poverty reduction, as well as helpedstrengthen the national great unity, boost socio-economic, culturaldevelopment and maintain security, politics and social safety for thethree regions.

He asked VNA, particularly itsbureaus based in the three regions, to work closely with localauthorities to effectively implement the signed agreement.-VNA